PLO Arab terrorists last night killed 5 IDF soldiers – members of a Bedouin reconnaissance unit – and wounded 6 others.
Proponents of the cycle-of-violence theory of the conflict will view this attack as the response to some Israeli military action, which itself was a response to another terror attack. To these people, I say thus: read what the terrorists themselves had to say about the attack:
Hamas and Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack, in honor of “the martyr Yasser Arafat, who was slain by the Zionist hand,” claiming that it took four months to dig an 800 meter-long tunnel from Rafah to the crossing and that one and a half tons of explosives were placed in barrels inside the tunnel for the blast.
In other words, Hamas and Fatah perpetrated the attack because of their belief that Israel killed Arafat. This, despite evidence to the contrary.
Now read their statement again. Does anything strike you as odd? If the terrorists were perpetrating the attack to avenge Arafat’s death, then why did they start digging the tunnel four months ago? * This was well before Arafat died (a fact that even the left-wing Ha’aretz picks up on).
It is time to stop kidding yourselves. It is Israel’s very existence that motivates the terrorists to constantly attack us.
* Unless they had advance knowledge that he was going to die. In which case, if he was poisoned, they would have to be the main suspects.
